A MAN has been arrested after a ten-year-old boy fell from height at cliffs near Brighton.

Police responded to the report of a boy falling at Ovingdean on Saturday evening at around 5pm. 

A 52-year-old man from Oxfordshire was arrested on suspicion of allowing a child to come to serious physical harm and has been bailed until October whilst enquiries continue.

The boy was visiting Brighton and Hove and suffered serious injuries. He was airlifted to St George’s Hospital in London, where he remains in a serious but stable condition.

Anyone with information relevant to the incident is urged to report online or call 101, quoting Operation Chaucer.